Battle of Jackson Marker

On August 3, 1863, with Port Hudson fallen, Union Gen. William Emory led a raid to cut the rail junction that had been supplying Confederate forces. The fight swept through Jackson. The East Feliciana Parish Courthouse became, briefly, a Union command post — a building meant for land records and probate now holding field maps and dispatch runners. The marker stands a block from that courthouse, in the historic district where Greek Revival storefronts still line the commercial streets. The plaque tells you the date and the stakes. The courthouse tells you what it cost to have your county seat turned into someone else's war room. Walk the district after — the buildings that survived are the reason to come.